Show CIP 1 ILL ilk P A 66 SENA I 1 TRADE UNITED STATES AND CANADA HAS BEEN APPROVED the vote was wa 63 53 to 27 only three democrats voting against the measure which has occupied at of two sessions of congress Washington 4 by a vote or of BI 53 to 27 the senate on saturday day approved the reciprocal trade agreement between the iho united states and canada embodied in the reciprocity till that had proved a atom center in two sessions of congress A majority of tho the republicans voted against the measure of fifty three votes totes for it thirty two were democratic and twenty one republican ot the twenty seven an against dinst twenty four were republican and three democratic this action settled the whole canadian reciprocity question so far as aa congress Is concerned and save tor for executive approval and the canadian parliaments ratification virtually made tho the pact the law of the land the reciprocity bill having originated in tho the house must be Te returned turned there for engrossment and for the signature of speaker clark while the house Is sitting the canadian parliament has not yet acted on the agreement and with one exception the provis provisions lons of the bill as passed by congress will not become came effective until the president issues a proclamation that canada has ratified the pact the exception to this procedure Is in the paper and pulp of the bill 1111 which it la Is announced will become immediately effective when the president signs the tha law from the white house president taft followed the votes on the amendments and on the final passage of the bill with the keenest interest 1 I am very much gratified gratl Hed and delighted that the bill la Is passed he said it indicates the increase of mutually bene beneficial Acial Te relations lations between canada and this cou country atry the president received many congratulations on before departing lor for 13 everly to the weekend week end in reply to these he declared he bras getting getling entirely too mcl credit out ot of the matter and that secretary knox really was antl entitled T ed to the greatest |